Tweak Firefox for Speed

Yes, yes, it is true. You can increase the speed of Firefox. Most of the time when you click a link or search or do whatever you want to do, you have to wait a couple of minutes before it happens. This is not the case in Chrome or Maxthon. But if you want to you can increase the speed.

Here's the how-to:

• Start Firefox.
  
• In the address box, type about:config and press Enter.
• There is a warning, click I'll be careful, I promise!
  
• Now you have got a search box and whole lot of settings, so search for these settings and double click them to change them to the new value:

browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs – true
network.http.max-connections – 48
network.http.max-connections-per-server – 16
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy – 8
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server – 4
network.http.pipelining – true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests – 100
network.http.proxy.pipelining – true
network.http.request.timeout – 300

• Right click on an empty part of the screen, then choose New and then choose Integer.
• Name the Integer as nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set it's value to 0 (Zero).

And it's done. But a point to note that most of these settings are for broadband connections, so before doing this make sure you have a good speed for the internet. I haven't tried this for slower speeds or even for that matter on dial-up connection. If someone tries, then please comment and let us all know. If these settings doesn't work, then also comment. If something is amiss or I forgot something, then also comment.